White Ink (Paperback)

Edited by poet Rishma Dunlop, White Ink is a rare and stunning collection by some of the finest poets of the late twentieth and early twenty first century. White Ink is an anthology in which the world s social and political changes, as well as the imaginative pulse of the past three decades, are uniquely reflected in poetry on motherhood. The mother emerges as a powerful, recurring, and central theme in contemporary poetry, written across cultures, ethnicities, languages, genders, and across geographies, politics, and histories White Ink offers the reader a selection of some of the most compelling voices on the subject, male, female, and international. Unsentimental, edgy, and unflinching, this is a gem of an anthology. A beautiful, satisfying read. Poets include Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Joy Harjo, Sharon Olds, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier, Allen Ginsberg, Irving Layton, Priscila Uppal, Sandra Gilbert, Grace Paley, Samuel Menashe, Marilyn Hacker, Steven Heighton, C.D. Wright, Cherrie Moraga, Natasha Trethewey, Rita Dove, Adrienne Rich, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Nicole Brossard, Marie Ponsot, Mahmoud Darwish, Naomi Shihab Nye, Fady Joudah, Daphne Marlatt, Molly Peacock, Leon Rooke, Claudia Rankine, Annie Finch, Anne Carson, Maxine Kumin, Louise Glück, Goran Simic, Carolyn Forché, Ingrid de Kok, Gabeba Baderoon, Mary Karr, Philip Levine, Jean Valentine, Bronwen Wallace, and many others.